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Job Description
As a Senior Enterprise Architect within the Enterprise Transformation Architecture (ETA) team, you will play a key role in shaping HMRC's enterprise-level transformation at the earliest stages of change.
Working as part of a dedicated cross-cutting team, you will collaborate across CDIO, business, delivery and commercial partners to apply capability-based impacting and enterprise architecture methods to inform strategic choices, articulate options and impacts, and influence decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Embed and drive the development of structured IT Capability-Based Impacting and architectural modelling to identify overlaps, synergies, and common needs across the organisation.
- Apply these proactively strategically shape and articulate the true value of change and positively influence IT change throughout the E2ECL, in line with HMRC's IT Strategy.
- Identify and make informed recommendations for mitigating or addressing key enterprise-level constraints, risks, assumptions, and dependencies to inform decision-making and early strategic shaping of IT and Business Roadmaps and scope, aligned to roadmaps or T-Maps.
- Articulate the size, complexity, and cost driver implications of options on early or in-flight enterprise-level IT impacts, considering emerging technologies and aligned to strategic outcomes.
- Present, or support the team in presenting, enterprise-level IT impacts and progress updates in a manner that is tailored to the audience.
- Actively seek and welcome constructive feedback to drive continuous improvement.
- Provide strategy-based direction and consultation to solution architects on solution designs, technology choices and governance requirements.
- Providing an early view on deliverability that informs and influences the transition from baseline to target architecture for delivery planning.
- Provide enterprise-level architectural consultancy to improve proactive adherence to enterprise-level guardrails and efficiency of corporate and architectural governance throughout the E2ECL.
- Research various subjects and topics using internal and external resources (e.g. Gartner, AI) and prepare and support the team in preparing for briefings, findings, options & recommendations.
- This includes supporting Chief and Enterprise Architecture with ad-hoc commissions (both strategic and transitional), via a standardised and repeatable impacting methodology using approved reference models.
- Supporting, and embedding the articulation through Roadmaps or T-Maps that support business readiness and help set business expectations.
- Show commitment to nurturing a collaborative culture, encouraging open dialogue, idea-sharing, and continuous improvement across the team.
Essential Criteria
- Proven ability to apply enterprise architecture principles to shape strategic options and assess enterprise-level impacts across complex programmes, portfolios or transformation initiatives.
- Experience of enterprise-level architectural analysis and shaping, including use of reference models and methodologies to inform early-stage decisions, trade-offs and recommendations.
- Ability to translate business strategy into enterprise IT capability outcomes, identifying strategic implications through capability-based planning and early-state design.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to clearly communicate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Solid foundation in IT and architectural domains, with understanding of commercial/sourcing approaches, commitment to continuous professional development, and either holding or willingness to obtain TOGAF certification.
Desirable Criteria
- Demonstrates experience using enterprise architecture modelling approaches or tools (e.g. capability models, ABACUS).
- Demonstrates knowledge of one or more HMRC business domain, platform or transformation area.
- Demonstrates foundational awareness of commercial contracts, procurement or sourcing strategies.
- Demonstrates experience contributing to and influencing outcomes at architecture governance forums.
- Demonstrates experience of adopting best practice to shape informed design decisions.
- Either holds or is willing to acquire a professional IT qualification such as BCS Business Architecture/BCS Practitioner certificate in Enterprise & Solutions Architecture.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments.